Quotes About Doubt

Are you all right, Lady?" Agatha looked up. "I guess. I just wonder how many other girls have to worry about whether or not it's smart to really trust their . . . you know, the guys they—" Lady Vitriox crossed her arms. "All of them," she said flatly. "But mine has an army!" The old woman shook her head. "They all do, my Lady. It consists of other men.

I would say I'm cautiously pessimistic about our chances.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.

Trust your leaders where mistakes are almost never made And they're afraid that I'm afraid

How much more of this? Merrily sat down in a chair at the end of the back row, feeling as though she'd been mugged. Fragments of faith scattered like credit cards in the gutter.

No wonder most people kept it entirely out of their lives, turned a blind eye to otherworldly mysteries, embraced scepticism. And also atheism because any kind of god was just confusing. Take all this stuff away and your life would slowly become rational.

People are looking for someone to tell them what to do and whether what they're doing is good or bad.

Whether we believe in the Devil or not is now a matter of choice. It was not always so.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

Scientists must be able to answer the question "What would convince me I am wrong?" If they can't, it's a sign they have grown too attached to their beliefs.

although we have a substantial body of evidence to support this conclusion, and we hold it with a high degree of confidence, it remains possible, albeit extremely improbable, that new evidence or arguments may compel us to revise our view of this matter.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.

That was the problem with religion. You no sooner made up your mind about something than you had to change it.

Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease.

Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

truth is rarely the truth and the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

I'd been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that's where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can never be absolutely sure about these things.

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

Hmm. That's what I suspected, you mad bastard.

the things you thought weren't true often turn out not to be false.

give me faith not religion...

Can you ground your faith on such impossibilities?